DocumentCode :
2055589
Title :
Is TDMA optimal in the low power regime?
Author :
Verdú, Sergio ; Caire, Giuseppe ; Tuninetti, Daniela
Author_Institution :
Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fYear :
2002
fDate :
2002
Firstpage :
193
Abstract :
We consider two-user additive Gaussian noise multiple-access and broadcast channels. Although the set of rate pairs achievable by time-division multiple-access (TDMA) is not equal to the capacity region (achieved by superposition), as the power decreases, the TDMA achievable region converges to the capacity region. Furthermore, TDMA achieves the same minimum energy per bit as superposition. Despite those features of TDMA, this paper answers the question in the title negatively except in two special cases: multiaccess channels where the users´ energy per bit are constrained to be identical and broadcast channels where the receivers have identical signal-to-noise ratios.
Keywords :
AWGN channels; broadcast channels; channel capacity; multiuser channels; optimisation; time division multiple access; AWGN channels; SNR; TDMA; additive Gaussian noise multiple-access channels; additive white Gaussian noise channels; broadcast channels; capacity region; low power regime; minimum energy per bit; multiaccess channels; signal-to-noise ratio; time-division multiple-access; two-user channels; Additive noise; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Fading; Gaussian noise; Independent component analysis; Multiaccess communication; Signal to noise ratio; Time division multiple access; Wideband;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7501-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023465
Filename :
1023465
Link To Document :
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